Sandra Cisneros Quotes, Thoughts and images

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.

The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.

You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

I think no matter what you do you can't please everybody. You have to ask yourself, "Did I do what I set out to do?"

I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.

The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

The ego's blocking the light from coming.

Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.

I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

Write about what makes you different.

I do travel a lot, because I need oxygen, I need to go to places to meet people who aren't upset at me because I'm asking for peace.

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.